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Biden Ripped After Repeating False Claim About ‘Civil Rights’ Role

Charlie Kirk Staff

07/26/2023

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Biden Ripped After Repeating False Claim About ‘Civil Rights’ Role

President Joe Biden has once again fabricated his role during the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

During a White House ceremony on Tuesday, President Biden bragged of his alleged legacy of civil rights advocacy while addressing a predominantly Black audience gathered to witness the dedication of a national monument in honor of Emmett Till.

The young black teen’s tragic murder in 1955 served as a pivotal catalyst for the civil rights movement.

“Telling the truth and the full history of our nation is important. … It was a lesson I learned coming out of the — not like real leaders in the civil rights movement — but when I came out of the civil rights movement as a kid, as a public defender,” Biden said.

According to a report by The Washington Times, in 1987, Biden acknowledged that he was not actively involved in the civil rights movement and did not participate in any marches for equality.

“During the 1960s, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement,” Biden claimed during his 1988 presidential run, the Times reported. “I was not an activist. I worked at an all-Black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, Delaware. I was involved in what they were thinking, in what they were feeling.

“But I was not out marching. I was not down in Selma. I was not anywhere else. I was a suburbanite kid who got a dose of exposure to what was happening to black Americans in my own city,” he said then.

Also in 1987, the Miami Herald reported that Biden was not a civil rights “activist.”

“I was a middle-class kid in a sports coat,” the Herald quoted him as saying.

Still, Biden has said his actions were in solidarity with blacks. In September, for instance, he claimed he was “very engaged” with the civil rights movement, which wasn’t true then, either.

“I got very engaged — in my case — in the civil rights movement,” Biden said in Pennsylvania on Labor Day. “As a kid, I worked a lot in the movement.”

In 2021, Biden said he “came out of the civil rights movement.”

The Times reported that in 2020, then-candidate Biden claimed to the NAACP that he played a role in desegregating restaurants. However, there is no evidence supporting his involvement in such efforts.

Additionally, Biden has repeatedly stated that he was arrested during a civil rights demonstration.

“I did not walk in the shoes of generations of students who walked these grounds, but I walked other grounds,” Biden said at Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University, a historically Black college and university. “Because I’m so damned old, I was there as well.”

“You think I’m kidding? It seems like yesterday was the first time I got arrested,” he added.

But in 2020, Biden admitted he hadn’t been arrested.

“I wasn’t arrested, I was stopped. I was not able to move where I wanted to go,” Biden told CNN.

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Charlie Kirk is the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, a national student movement dedicated to empowering young people to promote the principles of free markets and limited government.

Charlie is also the host of “The Charlie Kirk Show” podcast, which regularly ranks among the top-10 news shows on Apple podcast news charts, and is the host of the nationally syndicated daily radio show on the Salem Radio Network live from 12 - 3 PM ET.
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